[Vast Buffalo Wing Conspiracy]

I believe the alleged artifact referred to a "house of David" which is interesting, but would be like proving that there was a president Bush of the USA, three thousand years after the fact, based on the chance discovery of a can of Bush's Baked Beans.

Piecing together archeology is like trying to put together a jigsaw puzzle, with 99% of the pieces lost or missing. Trying to make dogmatic assertions based on fragmentary evidence is a chancy business at best. You're as liable to end up with egg on your face as not.

[MEGoody]

"Piecing together archeology is like trying to put together a jigsaw puzzle, with 99% of the pieces lost or missing. Trying to make dogmatic assertions based on fragmentary evidence is a chancy business at best."

Is this also how you feel about those 'evolutionary tree of life' claims?

[ArGee]

Trying to make dogmatic assertions based on fragmentary evidence is a chancy business at best.

It does help to have a history of the time period to help tie the fragments together.

Shalom.